a friend of mine mentioned that when he wears his fitbit on his right hand and plays his ukulele, his recorded activity level goes through the roof. so getting those insurance discounts while sitting on your couch will be easy. ditto for posted food choices. when the company figures that out their next move will be to become big brother.
Can you pay a homeopath with a stack of paper with one dollar stuck in there somewhere?
Only seems right.
you don't actually leave the dollar in there. you dump a hundred slips of paper and one dollar bill into a jar bang it on the table a few times. then you dump it all out, put one of the treated slips and a hundred fresh ones into the jar and bang it... repeat 10 times and that's a jar of 10C homeopathic dollar bills. you'd have to ask a homeopath what the actual value of each of those bills is.
all of his works start from a basic physical principle and develop a story from there. for example, life at high temperature, under high gravity, or in a near-critical atmosphere. he is careful about technical accuracy, but writes good SF adventures. he does not throw in fantasy elements, as some of the other authors mentioned here sometimes do.
others have pointed out problems with the + trick. here's a solution that works well: spamgourmet.com. create a (free) account with them, then any time they get an email with your name in the address, they forward it to you, up to a settable limit. after that, if you don't renew the address or set a whitelist, mail gets eaten.
so, for example, i just made up this address: plusbetter.4.mbloore@spamgourmet.com. the first four messages to that address will get forwarded to me (mbloore), the rest will disappear. changing the number won't help a spammer, the first one used sets the limit, and it won't go past 20 anyway.
i have been using this for years, and have seen several cases of mailing lists of apparently reputable organizations appearing to be stolen or sold.
Tell me, which is easier? Upload this image and try to find out where you are via this Visual Google, or enter the street name (street sign in the photo says "Queen Street") in Text Google?
my office is on queen street. what google query will tell you what city i am in?
that quote isn't about abosulte numbers, it is "per million vehicles". how many deaths were there per million abrams tanks?
of course, it wasn't per million passenger miles, or hours, or some measure of actually using the things. maybe the SUV death rate is lower because people can't afford the gas to drive them much.
i just sent a test message (not an invite) from my gmail account to my hotmail and yahoo accounts. yahoo put it in my inbox. hotmail put it in my junk folder.
an identical email from my pobox account went to my inbox at each site.
Sterling uses "nuke" to mean both "nuclear powerplant" and "nuclear bomb". And he often seems to consider those to be the same thing. Careless language leading to careless thinking?
the maximum number allowed is 20, and you can set up "watchwords" that are required to appear in addresses. in any case, it doesn't seem likely that spammers will go to a great deal of trouble to spam a few people who have demonstrated their desire to avoid spam. what would it profit them?
the easiest way to set up disposable addresses is to get a (free) account at spamgourmet.com. you can then create addresses on the fly, without having to go to their site. for example, the first 12 messages sent to slashdot.12.mbloore@spamgourmet.com will be forwarded to me. any others will get eaten. i don't ever have to go back to the spamgourmet site, but if i do i can do things like see how much mail each of my addresses has received, set up whitelists, and reset counters on existing addresses.
an even easier way to get one-time email addresses is spamgourmet.com. you don't have to go to their website more than the once to register. after that, just make up an address and they will forward it to you a limited number of times.
for example, the first 4 messages sent to slashjunk.4.mbloore@spamgourmet.com will be forwarded to me; any more will be eaten.
more control is available if you want it, such as whitelists and resetting the count. and you can reply throgh them, so your forwarding address is not revealed.
/* terminate and return 1 for any positive input */ int collatz (int i) {
if (i == 1) return 1;
if (i & 1) return collatz (i * 3 + 1);
else return collatz(i >> 1); }... really, really hard to prove correct.
it had better be hard to prove correct!
called with the most negative integer (high bit set, all others zero) it will return 1.
or did you not mean to specify what it would do with a negative input?
Oh! now i get it! we have misunderstood each other.
i was refering to the rotation needed to bring my hand more-or-less parallel to the table, to hold an ordinary mouse. my neutral hand position is with the palm at around 80 degrees to the table, so a vertical mouse needs a smaller rotation, in the opposite direction.
i was not thinking about the wrist motion to move the mouse, which is what you were talking about. now that you have pointed it out, i am going to see what changing that motion might do for me.
i do have a problem with that rotation to hold an ordinary mouse. i also have a problem with rotating my lower arm out to a position beside the keyboard, to hold the mouse. when i bought a trackball, with the intenyion of mounting it at a comfortable angle, i found that i could also increase comfort by having it on my left side (i am right handed), so that my lower arm was across my body rather than out to the side.
do you mean a trackball? i have an MS explorer trackball (i like the five buttons), which i bought specifically because it doesn't have to lie flat. i can prop it at an angle, or hold it in my left hand, and that lets me keep both my wrist and my arm in comfortable positions. i had found that rotating my arm out to reach a mouse beside my keyboard was a problem for my elbow.
i'm now using a vertical mouse from evoluent (also five buttons, unlike the Quill mouse), which leaves my left hand free, but does need to sit beside my keyboard. i am going to look for a mouse tray to attach to my left chair arm.
If you don't like using a regular mouse in a way that won't cause you pain, then you won't like using this mouse either.
the way i use a regular mouse that causes me pain is to rotate my hand. a vertical mouse means less rotation, so less pain. it is not a matter of habit, it is the way the mouse is built.
i bought an Evoluent Vertical Mouse from ergo recently, and i like it a lot. (that's a canadian store, and the price is in canadian dollars. for those from the US, that may be attractive.)
unlike the Quill, it has 5 buttons (including the wheel button), and thus easily replaced my MS explorer trackball. using a Quill i would really miss those other two buttons. it also has a smaller footprint, since your hand surrounds it, rather than being surrounded by it.
"Faith is belief in something which you know to be false -- Arthur Clarke." More proof that AC is going loopy.
If a boy comes up to you and says "I have a red ball in my room" and you believe him, you have faith that he told yo the truth.
no, you trust that he told you the truth. faith is a special sort of trust, held for its assumed intrinsic worth, rather than for evidence.
if you believe him because he has a reputation for honesty, because you see no reason for him to lie, or even because you feel you must give him the benefit of the doubt, that is trust, and subject to refutation if you search the room.
if you believe him because it is necessary for your moral, physical, or spiritual well-being to believe him, because to disbelieve him would be bring the disapproval of your peers, or because he will wreak dire retribution on you if you express doubt, then that is faith. you will never seek to verify the ball's presence, because that would be wrong, or dangerous.
Nice generalization. As a "Corp IT exec," I can say...
My apologies, that comment was offhand and poorly stated. By "corporate IT exec" I really meant someone who is resonsible for systems maintenance, rather than system development, and the phrase I chose didn't say that. Of course, even perfect clarity would have left me insulting many a consciencious manager.
My comment was really meant as a joke, and a comment on corporate politics and empire-building, rather than the real work that IT departments and execs do. But I do believe that some part of MS's power derives from people using the instability and obscurity of their systems for personal advantage, and that MS deliberatly enables this.
... lacks the ability to name the outgoing document. It gets the moniker 'print job.pdf'...
i just did a quick test, sending a pdf from TextEdit to a folder by selecting a pdf service. the document was "Untitled 4", and the file created was "Untitled 4.pdf". perhaps there are other application/service combos that have a naming problem.
You can give it to all users on the machine by putting it in/Library instead of ~/Library
It only works if there is a ~/Library/PDF Services.
that seems to be true, contrary to the apple doc.
however, while you do have to create the folder, you don't have to put anything in it. if you want all users to see all pdf services, put the stuff in the shared folder, and leave the user's empty.
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a friend of mine mentioned that when he wears his fitbit on his right hand and plays his ukulele, his recorded activity level goes through the roof. so getting those insurance discounts while sitting on your couch will be easy. ditto for posted food choices. when the company figures that out their next move will be to become big brother.
Can you pay a homeopath with a stack of paper with one dollar stuck in there somewhere?
Only seems right.
you don't actually leave the dollar in there. you dump a hundred slips of paper and one dollar bill into a jar bang it on the table a few times. then you dump it all out, put one of the treated slips and a hundred fresh ones into the jar and bang it... repeat 10 times and that's a jar of 10C homeopathic dollar bills. you'd have to ask a homeopath what the actual value of each of those bills is.
all of his works start from a basic physical principle and develop a story from there. for example, life at high temperature, under high gravity, or in a near-critical atmosphere. he is careful about technical accuracy, but writes good SF adventures. he does not throw in fantasy elements, as some of the other authors mentioned here sometimes do.
others have pointed out problems with the + trick. here's a solution that works well: spamgourmet.com. create a (free) account with them, then any time they get an email with your name in the address, they forward it to you, up to a settable limit. after that, if you don't renew the address or set a whitelist, mail gets eaten.
so, for example, i just made up this address: plusbetter.4.mbloore@spamgourmet.com. the first four messages to that address will get forwarded to me (mbloore), the rest will disappear. changing the number won't help a spammer, the first one used sets the limit, and it won't go past 20 anyway.
i have been using this for years, and have seen several cases of mailing lists of apparently reputable organizations appearing to be stolen or sold.
Tell me, which is easier? Upload this image and try to find out where you are via this Visual Google, or enter the street name (street sign in the photo says "Queen Street") in Text Google?
my office is on queen street. what google query will tell you what city i am in?
that quote isn't about abosulte numbers, it is "per million vehicles". how many deaths were there per million abrams tanks?
of course, it wasn't per million passenger miles, or hours, or some measure of actually using the things. maybe the SUV death rate is lower because people can't afford the gas to drive them much.
i just sent a test message (not an invite) from my gmail account to my hotmail and yahoo accounts.
yahoo put it in my inbox.
hotmail put it in my junk folder.
an identical email from my pobox account went to my inbox at each site.
Sterling uses "nuke" to mean both "nuclear powerplant" and "nuclear bomb". And he often seems to consider those to be the same thing. Careless language leading to careless thinking?
the maximum number allowed is 20, and you can set up "watchwords" that are required to appear in addresses.
in any case, it doesn't seem likely that spammers will go to a great deal of trouble to spam a few people who have demonstrated their desire to avoid spam. what would it profit them?
the easiest way to set up disposable addresses is to get a (free) account at spamgourmet.com. you can then create addresses on the fly, without having to go to their site. for example, the first 12 messages sent to
slashdot.12.mbloore@spamgourmet.com will be forwarded to me. any others will get eaten. i don't ever have to go back to the spamgourmet site, but if i do i can do things like see how much mail each of my addresses has received, set up whitelists, and reset counters on existing addresses.
Their blind and they're overcoming challenge.
and there spelling is consistent.
an even easier way to get one-time email addresses is spamgourmet.com. you don't have to go to their website more than the once to register. after that, just make up an address and they will forward it to you a limited number of times.
for example, the first 4 messages sent to slashjunk.4.mbloore@spamgourmet.com will be forwarded to me; any more will be eaten.
more control is available if you want it, such as whitelists and resetting the count. and you can reply throgh them, so your forwarding address is not revealed.
it is all free.
(home server room with ten systems?! WTF?!)
startup spam farm?
int collatz (int i) {
if (i == 1) return 1;
if (i & 1) return collatz (i * 3 + 1);
else return collatz(i >> 1);
}
it had better be hard to prove correct!
called with the most negative integer (high bit set, all others zero) it will return 1.
or did you not mean to specify what it would do with a negative input?
Not really. It's only strong in one direction, and even then, only in tension.
the same is true of the kevlar and spectra fibres commonly used in bulletproof vests today.
can the RIAA sue Apple or Microsoft if security holes...
does the RIAA care _who_ pays for the download, so long as _someone_ does?
Oh! now i get it! we have misunderstood each other.
i was refering to the rotation needed to bring my hand more-or-less parallel to the table, to hold an ordinary mouse. my neutral hand position is with the palm at around 80 degrees to the table, so a vertical mouse needs a smaller rotation, in the opposite direction.
i was not thinking about the wrist motion to move the mouse, which is what you were talking about.
now that you have pointed it out, i am going to see what changing that motion might do for me.
i do have a problem with that rotation to hold an ordinary mouse. i also have a problem with rotating my lower arm out to a position beside the keyboard, to hold the mouse. when i bought a trackball, with the intenyion of mounting it at a comfortable angle, i found that i could also increase comfort by having it on my left side (i am right handed), so that my lower arm was across my body rather than out to the side.
do you mean a trackball? i have an MS explorer trackball (i like the five buttons), which i bought specifically because it doesn't have to lie flat. i can prop it at an angle, or hold it in my left hand, and that lets me keep both my wrist and my arm in comfortable positions. i had found that rotating my arm out to reach a mouse beside my keyboard was a problem for my elbow.
i'm now using a vertical mouse from evoluent (also five buttons, unlike the Quill mouse), which leaves my left hand free, but does need to sit beside my keyboard. i am going to look for a mouse tray to attach to my left chair arm.
If you don't like using a regular mouse in a way that won't cause you pain, then you won't like using this mouse either.
the way i use a regular mouse that causes me pain is to rotate my hand. a vertical mouse means less rotation, so less pain. it is not a matter of habit, it is the way the mouse is built.
i bought an Evoluent Vertical Mouse from ergo recently, and i like it a lot. (that's a canadian store, and the price is in canadian dollars. for those from the US, that may be attractive.)
unlike the Quill, it has 5 buttons (including the wheel button), and thus easily replaced my MS explorer trackball. using a Quill i would really miss those other two buttons. it also has a smaller footprint, since your hand surrounds it, rather than being surrounded by it.
"Faith is belief in something which you know to be false -- Arthur Clarke." More proof that AC is going loopy.
If a boy comes up to you and says "I have a red ball in my room" and you believe him, you have faith that he told yo the truth.
no, you trust that he told you the truth. faith is a special sort of trust, held for its assumed intrinsic worth, rather than for evidence.
if you believe him because he has a reputation for honesty, because you see no reason for him to lie, or even because you feel you must give him the benefit of the doubt, that is trust, and subject to refutation if you search the room.
if you believe him because it is necessary for your moral, physical, or spiritual well-being to believe him, because to disbelieve him would be bring the disapproval of your peers, or because he will wreak dire retribution on you if you express doubt, then that is faith. you will never seek to verify the ball's presence, because that would be wrong, or dangerous.
Nice generalization. As a "Corp IT exec," I can say...
My apologies, that comment was offhand and poorly stated. By "corporate IT exec" I really meant someone who is resonsible for systems maintenance, rather than system development, and the phrase I chose didn't say that. Of course, even perfect clarity would have left me insulting many a consciencious manager.
My comment was really meant as a joke, and a comment on corporate politics and empire-building, rather than the real work that IT departments and execs do. But I do believe that some part of MS's power derives from people using the instability and obscurity of their systems for personal advantage, and that MS deliberatly enables this.
... lacks the ability to name the outgoing document. It gets the moniker 'print job.pdf'...
i just did a quick test, sending a pdf from TextEdit to a folder by selecting a pdf service. the document was "Untitled 4", and the file created was "Untitled 4.pdf". perhaps there are other application/service combos that have a naming problem.
Can he figure it out? No. Is he stupid? No. Does Microsoft suck at designing OS's that make sense? Yes.
does a corporate IT exec want a platform that makes his department large and indispensible? yes. does MS know its market? yes.
You can give it to all users on the machine by putting it in /Library instead of ~/Library
It only works if there is a ~/Library/PDF Services.
that seems to be true, contrary to the apple doc.
however, while you do have to create the folder, you don't have to put anything in it. if you want all users to see all pdf services, put the stuff in the shared folder, and leave the user's empty.